A/N: Gomen Gomen!I KNOW! I KNOW! Its been ages! Sorry! But GCSE's are well and truly over and my parents can't nag because I got good results! With last minute revision! (who said you had to work during study-leave?) Neko! James gives each reviewer a cookie! He is also open to receiving his own fanmail (which he will answer at the bottom of each page x

Enjoy….

James Potter was deposited on the end of a soft bed smelling faintly of lavender and washing up powder. He blearily looked around him and tried to stand up, but his little body exhausted, he curled up in a little ball and fell fast asleep.

Lilly looked at the bundle of black fur on her bed, gently moving up and down and smiled. She reached out a slender arm and gently stroked the top of the kittens head a few times before grabbing her books and a quill. And this dear readers, is where we leave them for the night, Lilly Evans scribbling furiously, blue ink bottle tipping precariously beside her, and James Potter fast asleep, little furry body rising and falling softly with each breath.

The next morning James Potter was rudely awaked by a piercing alarm that nobody seemed to want to turn off. After a few minutes of incessant beeping, during which James had tried to shield his throbbing ear drums by burrowing his head under the duvet but suddenly he was unceremoniously dragged out from under his hiding place just as the beeping stopped.

Unfamiliar hands were locked firmly around him and last nights feeling of sailing through the air VERY insecurely, returned. Girls voices formed a buzz of inane chatter round his head, and James gave up on feeling sick for a moment as he tried to discern Lily's. Because of the intensity of his concentration, he had absolutely no idea of his destination, and so it came as a very large shock as he was suddenly dropped into a stone sink of freezing cold water.

Lilly Evans slept straight through the alarm and chatter, as usual not even twitching through the morning din. A sudden screech, however, caused her to sit bolt upright, her hand pressed against her thumping heart. The screech was followed by another, more plaintive, coming from the direction of the bathroom.

A quick scan of the bed and then the room showed that "Shnookems" was nowhere in sight, and so panic setting in, Lilly stumbled to the bathroom. She came across her roommate, plastic gloves up to her elbows, scrubbing furiously what looked like a wet rag, with a bar of detergent smelling soap. On closer inspection the wet rag, turned out to be a very indignant looking, drowned rat (better known to us as James Potter).

After the rescuing of one bedraggled kitten and the chewing out of one estranged (and germ conscious roommate), Lilly was sitting on her bed, with shivering kitten, wrapped in a white fluffy towel, mewing plaintively. Sighing she started toweling him off, talking to him all the while.

"What are we going to do with you hmm?"

James was not happy. First off he had had to lap up milk from the floor, Lilly had somehow managed to not transfigure the container. And it wasn't just unhygienic, it was skimmed milk. As if he drank skimmed milk, who drank skimmed milk? Weirdo's that's who, as soon as he changed back he would…

Hang on.

What if he didn't change back?

Today was Sunday, someone would notice if he was missing today, maybe Evans would notice that he wasn't at breakfast! Maybe she would figure out he was the cat! Maybe…..

James cut off his train of unsolicited thoughts and started licking his fur in a panic. The rest of the morning had been rather uneventful. Apart from almost catching hyperthermia, having to drink skimmed milk and smelling of toilet cleaner, nothing much else had happened.

He was sprawled on Amy's (the germ conscious roommates) pillow, full length, occasionally indulging in a body twist, whilst the girls were at breakfast. Pushing himself up he gave a shake, watched in satisfaction as more hair drifted down, jumped off the bed and cautiously stuck his head out the girls dormitory door. Seeing no one, he softly padded away from the room, tail swishing from side to side.

The remaining three marauders were sitting in plump armchairs, in a huddle around the crackling fire. James's eyes narrowed, he crept stealthily, eyes on the leg stretched and dangling over the arm rest. He stilled as he neared his prey, his tail swishing softly behind him, assuring him of his balance as he leapt through the air, feet akimbo, claws out-stretched, and latched, hissing and spitting onto his target.

Sirius did not disappoint. And ear splitting shriek resounded through the common room as his limb was suddenly host to what seemed like dozens of sharp thick pins shredding his precious skin.

"WHAT THE HELL! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!"

A few more girly ehem sorry, manly screams later the four marauders were back to sitting calmly in front of the fire place, three in chairs, one on the floor and two of said marauders having a death glare match. If the readers would so kindly ignore the rather ridiculous picture presented of Sirius glaring at a kitten, they would be able to hear the following conversation taking place over the head of the fearsome glare-match warriors.

Look I returned the book to the library

So can't you get it tonight Pete? Nick James' cloak, he won't….

No! Its not that! I went back today right? To get the reversal spell. But someone's taken out the book!

Sirius suddenly jumped to attention

What book?

Remus took it upon himself to explain.

The reversal spells for animal transfigurations is in this advanced transfiguration tome which I had but it got returned to the library and now someone's taken it…

If James Potter had in fact not been turned into a cat, he would have been able to articulate what his three other companions decided to voice.

"Shit."

As it was, he was thinking it very loudly

Okay, HELP REQUIRED! Just someone to help me write this, like a beta or something. I'm finding this one a bitch so thank you soooooo much for continuing to stick with this and being patient and sorry about the page breaks but ff is beinga bitch!

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